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The hot, dense and strongly interacting medium known as the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) is produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Early in the collisions, quarks and gluons from the incoming nuclei…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-03-14 Joel Mazer

The quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is an exotic phase of matter, composed of deconfined quarks and gluons and is briefly created in heavy-ion collisions (HIC) at the LHC and at the RHIC. High-energy, self-collimated structures of final-state…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-10 Eamonn Weitz

One of the key signatures of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), is the modification of hadron transverse momentum differential cross-sections in heavy-ion collisions (HIC) as compared to proton-proton (pp) collisions. Suppression of hadron…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-11-23 Astrid Morreale

Some of the most important probes of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced in heavy ion collisions come from the analysis of how the shape and energy of jets are modified by passage through QGP. We model an ensemble of back-to-back dijets…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Jasmine Brewer , Krishna Rajagopal , Andrey Sadofyev , Wilke van der Schee

Jets provide us with ideal probes of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced in heavy-ion collisions, since its dynamics at its different scales is imprinted into the multi-scale substructure of the final state jets. We present a new approach…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-11 Carlota Andres , Fabio Dominguez , Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli , Jack Holguin , Cyrille Marquet , Ian Moult

Hard probes - final state particles related to an interaction with large momentum transfer or mass scale - play a distinguished role in the discovery and the study of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), a phase of deconfined quarks and gluons…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-09-18 Christian Klein-Bösing

Precise measurements and calculations of the internal structure of hadronic jets produced in high energy proton or lead collisions have become a prominent research area in recent years. Jet substructure provides information about quantum…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-05-25 Raymond Ehlers

The ATLAS Collaboration has developed a method to analyze large-radius jets composed of skinny $R=0.2$ subjets in heavy-ion collisions. We first demonstrate that the measurements pioneered by ATLAS constrain the value of $L_{\rm res}$, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-31 Arjun Srinivasan Kudinoor , Daniel Pablos , Krishna Rajagopal

Parton energy loss in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is studied with a measurement of photon-tagged jet production in 1.7 nb$^{-1}$ of Pb+Pb data and 260 pb$^{-1}$ of $pp$ data, both at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} = 5.02$ TeV, with the ATLAS…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-09-28 ATLAS Collaboration

Quark-gluon plasma (QGP), when viewed at length scales of order the inverse of its temperature, behaves as a strongly-coupled liquid. However, when it is probed with sufficiently high momentum transfer, asymptotic freedom mandates the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-11 Hannah Bossi , Arjun Kudinoor , Ian Moult , Daniel Pablos , Ananya Rai , Krishna Rajagopal

The different modifications of quark- and gluon-initiated jets in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced in heavy-ion collisions is a long-standing question that has not yet received a definitive answer from experiments. In particular, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-01 Yueyang Ying , Jasmine Brewer , Yi Chen , Yen-Jie Lee

Hard-scattered partons provide an ideal probe for the study of the Quark-Gluon Plasma because they are produced prior to the formation of the QCD medium in heavy-ion collisions. Jet production is therefore susceptible to modifications…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Salvatore Aiola

Recent data on the nuclear modification factor $R_{AA}$ of jet fragments in 2.76 ATeV Pb+Pb collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) indicate that the jet-medium coupling in a Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) is reduced at LHC energies and not…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Barbara Betz , Miklos Gyulassy

The ALICE Collaboration presents a new suite of jet substructure measurements in Pb-Pb and pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair $\sqrt{s}_{\rm NN} = 5.02$ TeV. These measurements provide access to the internal structure…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-05-19 ALICE Collaboration

The measurement of jets recoiling from a trigger hadron in heavy-ion collisions can be used to understand the properties of the Quark Gluon Plasma. Jet-medium interactions cause jets to lose energy in the medium and may modify the jet…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-01-10 Jaime Norman

We overview recent jet measurements in pp and Pb-Pb collisions with the ALICE detector. ALICE reconstructs jets at midrapidity using the anti-$k_{\mathrm{T}}$ algorithm, including both charged particle jets from the ALICE tracking…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-11-30 James Mulligan

Jet quenching, a standard signature of quark--gluon plasma (QGP) formation in which jets lose energy by traversing the medium, comprises a well-studied set of observables in heavy-ion collisions. Significant questions remain, however,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-10-07 Caitlin Beattie

The Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) is created in high energy heavy ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This medium is transparent to electromagnetic probes but nearly opaque to colored…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-10-17 Christine Nattrass

We present a new model for jet quenching in a quark gluon plasma (QGP). The jet energy loss has two steps. The initial jet parton with a high virtuality loses energy by a perturbative vacuum parton shower modified by medium interactions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-27 Iurii Karpenko , Alexander Lind , Martin Rohrmoser , Joerg Aichelin , Pol-Bernard Gossiaux

Jet substructure observables provide powerful tools to search for new physics and test theoretical descriptions of perturbative and non-perturbative processes in QCD. In heavy-ion collisions, jet substructure observables are used to…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-11-21 Ezra D. Lesser